bjerk
Norwegian
noun-c
Definitions
- a birch tree of genus Betula
- birch wood from the birch tree
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse bjǫrk inherited from Proto-Germanic *birkijǭ inherited from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerHǵos (birch).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*bʰerHǵos
Gloss
birch
Concept
Semantic Field
Agriculture and vegetation
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- birch English
- birchbark English
- birchen English
- bircher English
- birchlike English
- birchwood English
- birchy English
- farnus Latin
- fraxinus Latin
- *bʰerHǵos Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰerHǵs Proto-Indo-European
- bjerkeved Norwegian Bokmål
- bjørk Norwegian Bokmål
- dverg Norwegian Bokmål
- dvergbjerk Norwegian Bokmål
- ved Norwegian Bokmål
- *berkō Proto-Germanic
- *birkijǭ Proto-Germanic
- björk Swedish
- bjørk Norwegian Nynorsk
- birċe Old English
- भूर्ज Sanskrit
- birche Middle English
- birkja Old Norse
- bjǫrk Old Norse
- *berza Proto-Slavic
- björk Icelandic
- birka Old High German
- bjørk Faroese
- *bʰr̥Hȷ́ás Proto-Indo-Iranian
- bjerk Westrobothnian
- *bʰr̥Hȷ́ás Proto-Indo-Aryan
- *berźas Proto-Balto-Slavic
- *bérˀźas Proto-Balto-Slavic